If you are a fan of sketch comedy, you should know about SketchFest. Co-produced by OrlandoComedy.net and Night of the Nightwolf, SketchFest's Orlando Sketch Night combined several comedic, local minds in (mostly) brilliant pre-recorded one to three minute chucks. The first iteration of ADD-friendly comedy came June 24th to The Gallery of Avalon Island.
Despite minor glitches, which were resolved thanks to QuickTime and some nimble fingers at a PC, audiences were presented 24 quick-hitting comedic blasts. Even the “commercials” were nuggets of comedic bliss thanks to Night of the Nightwolf's “Beefy King” and the fantastic faux featurette “Dudebrodios!” by The Traveling Carnies.
There was plenty of camp to go around throughout the night. Nightwolf's Rake Wars, in three parts, told the story of John Raker as he looked to avenge the death of his wife and neighbor at the hands of the “Big Mon.” Their audio wasn't synched very well and it took the campyness to a distracting level. With more post-production effort, the end results could become much stronger because the humor was there.
The night belonged to two other serials. The Humor Mill brought three shorts starring Comatose Carl and his party tips. Carl getting the girl by giving her “the eye” brought large laughs from the small audience. The Traveling Carnies shined with their premiere of “Self-Unemployed” in two parts, the latter featuring Nicky the C***-Block (it rhymes). She is the type of character that could go a long way into successful skit-dom with more recurrences.
Thanks to YouTube, most sketches can been seen at your PC. If you're ready to jump into the deep end of sketch comedy, go to www.orlandosketch.com after June 30th for details on this quarterly event starting in October 2010.
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Thanks for coming out to the event Erik. I was excited to see you there.
I was a big part of the production for this event, and despite some technical issues to start, I would say this event came out well.
I'm going to take the comments about RakeWars only a little personally and point out that the audio-synch choices were deliberate, and that I believe that this reviewer may be a personal friend of The Traveling Carnies and The Humor Mill as statements like 'the night belonged to...' seem a little out of touch and neglect excellent shorts submitted by Phoenix Productions, Matt Ames of Philosophy Inc., Anthony Torres and Ariel Zengotita.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next event in October, submission deadlines for the October event will be on the 1st, with submission forms posted at www.orlandosketch.com late-late tonight.
Yes, I am a friend of a couple of the Carnies and I believe I know one person from Humor Mill. That being said, I did enjoy those sketches the most. I did however omit the other submitting groups and I apologize for that. Of that list you provided, I should make mention that Matt Ames' "The Human Body" was also very funny, that was omitted when I made final edits. Ames' paper cutout style matched the camp content very well and was very enjoyable. Again, I apologize to Matt for that omission.
As for RakeWars, my comments weren't meant to offend. To be fair, I believe Kevin was in that piece and I am a friend of his as well. Overall, Rake Wars played well and was both funny and enjoyable. However, even if it was intentional, the audio sync became distracting and hurt some of the comic delivery.
I'm looking forward to the next iteration in October and appreciate your feedback and in the fact that this event exists thanks to your and others efforts and agree it was a success!
I can't argue with what people think is funny - but apparently, I can't help myself.
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